Implications and Consequences of Sharon’s Motivations …

Column One: Arik and Iraq

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“The problem is that the more one analyzes Sharon’s actions and behavior, the more one is led to the conclusion that the national interest is not what motivates the prime minister. Rather Sharon is motivated by his personal interests.”

For Sharon, as for his comrade Shimon Peres, a principal motivator seems to be his biological clock. The urge to determine Israel’s national borders cannot be the function of a rational analysis of regional realities at a time when all of our neighbors are in flux and none of their societies accepts Israel’s right to exist within any borders. For a gerontocracy like the Sharon-Peres government, an overwhelming urge seems to be to clean the slate before the old men make their final exits. read more

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War News Over Shabbos …

Underground Tunnel From Gaza to Israel Uncovered

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“For the first time since Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip this summer IDF forces uncovered an underground tunnel, apparently used to smuggle arms, near the Erez goods crossing Saturday afternoon, Army Radio reported.”

The tunnel, which reached into Israeli territory, was dug under a garbage site in Beit Hanoun, and was reported to be a few dozen meters in length. The IDF said that it has lookouts in the area, but the tunnel was dug in an area out of the sight of soldiers. read more

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Overnight Election Politics …

AND THE WINNER IS …

Virtual Likud Candidates Debate: On Your Mark, Get Set, Go!

Moshe Feiglin and the Manhigut Yehudit Faction: Hands down, a No Brainer! Easily the most concise positions of all the Likud Candidates. No word-games, no monkey-business, no machinations. What you hear and see is what’ll you’ll get!

Very little that this author can add to Feiglin’s devastating virtual debate rout of Bibi, Mofaz, Katz and Shalom. Wish that we could have seen this on TV! read more

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Overnight War News …

Enemy Artillery Barrage Continues

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“Thursday night saw continued PA artillery attacks on the Negev. There were no injuries in the barrage. Israeli forces responded with artillery fire at empty fields in Gaza.”

“The attacks took place Thursday evening and overnight, as Arab terrorists in Palestinian Authority (PA)-controlled Gaza fired several rockets and mortar shells at targets in the western Negev. No damage or injuries were reported, although a rocket earlier on Thursday narrowly missed farm workers in Moshav Yesha. read more

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“…Causing the Multitude to Sin – This is Unforgivable.”

Who’s Who, According to the Rambam

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“The Rebbe’s answer must have come as a shock to his correspondent. In volume 18 of the collection of letters by the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn, is found a letter dated the tenth of MarCheshvan, 1958, in which the Rebbe expresses his disapproval that his correspondent has ceased associating with Jews whom he refers to as those who scoff at and rebuff the Torah.

Known for his inclusion of all Jews in the mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel, the commandment to love your fellow Jew, the Rebbe says that the Torah explicitly does not sanction separating yourself from such people, except for specifically defined cases. The Rebbe refers to the definitions by the Rambam in Hilchos Tshuva, perek Gimmel, Halachos Hes (8) and Yud (10).” read more

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The Agony and Hurt of an Israeli Government’s Betrayal of Fellow Jews…

Another right on the mark article from Rachel Saperstein, formerly of Neve Dekalim;

As We View Our Soldiers…

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“There is a good deal of worry about our children. Children who once viewed our soldiers with reverence now see the soldier as an enemy who can readily throw them out of their homes. You can no longer trust a soldier, or a policeman, or a member of the Knesset, or a prime minister. Each engenders fear. One is left with a sense of helplessness.”

” … I am traumatized and my body shakes as I relive, every night, my expulsion by the Israeli army and the Israeli police.” read more

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